Here’s a webcast concert worth watching — Sunday evening at 8:30 pm EST (7:30 pm CST), from the University of Texas, with Jerry Junkin conducting. The program includes Ron Nelson’s Resonances I (which I programmed years ago with the Bergen County Band and hope to program next year with us), but Liebermann Flute Concerto and two masterworks by Holst. It should be terrific if you have Sunday evening free.
I will post the rehearsal order for Monday evening’s rehearsal on Saturday. In the meantime, crank up the practice on the Grainger, especially movements 3 & 5.
Here is Jerry Junkin’s invitation:
Dear Colleagues:
I would like to make you aware of the webcast of the final concert of the fall term of The University of Texas Wind Ensemble. On Sunday, November 18, Marianne Gedigian will perform the Flute Concerto, op. 39 by Lowell Leibermann with the Wind Ensemble in Bates Recital Hall on the UT – Austin Campus at 7:30 p.m. CST. If you cannot be with us in person for the Sunday evening performance, we hope that you will be able to join us via a live audio/video webcast. To access, go to http://www.music.utexas.edu/calendar/details.aspx?id=23225 and navigate the calendar menu to the specific performance listing. Broadcast begins a few minutes before the performance.
The entire program will be as follows: November 18, 7:30 p.m. CST
Ron Nelson – Resonances I
Lowell Liebermann (trans. Shaw) – Concerto for Flute, op. 39
I. Moderato
II. Molto Adagio
III. Presto
Marianne Gedigian, flute
Intermission
Gustav Holst – First Suite in Eb
I. Chaconne
II. Intermezzo
III. March
Gustav Holst (trans. Patterson) – Suite from The Planets
I. Mars, the Bringer of War
II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger
IV. Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity
Marianne Gedigian, Professor of Flute and holder of the Butler Professorship in Music at The University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music, was a regular performer with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for over a decade, including several seasons as Acting Principal Flute under Seiji Ozawa. As Principal Flute with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and Acting Principal Flute with the Boston Pops, Ms. Gedigian has been heard on dozens of recordings and Evening at Pops television broadcasts as well as the nationally broadcast Fourth of July specials. She has also been heard on several John Williams` movie scores, including Saving Private Ryan and Schindler`s List . In the 2000 – 2001 season, Ms. Gedigian was invited by Mariss Jansons to perform as Acting Principal Flute with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Her solo performances have taken her around the world, including recitals in Japan, Australia, England, and Armenia and she has appeared as concerto soloist numerous times with the Boston Pops Orchestra and with the Armenian Philharmonic performing her own transcription of the Khachaturian Violin Concerto. She was featured with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull fame in a performance at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Ms. Gedigian has been a featured soloist and teacher at numerous National Flute Association conventions across the country, and is a frequent recitalist and teacher for flute clubs in the United States, Australia, Japan, and England.
Ms. Gedigian has been first prizewinner in the National Flute Association`s Young Artist Competition, and the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition. She keeps an active schedule as a chamber musician as a founding member of the Boston-based Walden Chamber Players and was formerly a member of the Dorian Wind Quintet. Her solo recordings include Voice of the Flute and Revolution, both with pianist Rick Rowley.
Ms. Gedigian is on the summer faculty at the Brevard Music Center, and has served on the faculties of Boston University`s College of Fine Arts, The Boston Conservatory, the Round Top International Institute, and the Tanglewood Music Center. Ms. Gedigian`s teachers include Leone Buyse, Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Clement Barone, and Donna Olkowski.